The Narrative of History
Ξ December 18th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Intellectual |
I’ve frequently mentioned what I call the Narrative of History, and thought I’d try to define exactly what I mean by that here before someone asks me in a conversation and I get tongue-tied. The short and dirty metaphor is to say it’s akin to the forest one is suppose to see through the trees. I think a better way to think of it, however, is of a rope. A rope is made up of many individual threads – all rather minor in their own right but when taken as a whole make up something distinct and identifiable in it’s own right. (more…)
